The work experience of men in the labor force: An occupational study.

This study focuses upon the work experience of labor-force members, as distinguished from labor-force participation rates, unemployment, and hours of work. It examines such problems as occupational differences in amount of work experience and the relationship of work experience to unemployment and to nonparticipation in the labor force. Among the study's principal findings are (1) that except among production-worker occupations in manufacturing, no more than one-third of the variance in work experience in 1949 was attributable to unemployment, and (2) that for occupations in the economy as a whole, marital status was at least as important as unemployment in accounting for differentials in work experience that year. (Author's abstract courtesy EBSCO.)